Opinion

Thirty-one years’ pension wait is a long time

Dear Editor, With CARICOM celebrating now its 50th anniversary, this nonagenarian who was the first Chief of Personnel of the Secretariat, and possibly the oldest pensioner – from 1992, had hoped that the Pension Committee which reports to the Secretary-General would by now have placed as the last item on the meeting’s item the two-year old petition for an increase on a thirty-one year old pension – indeed the principle of which three of us had discussed with the current Secretary-General as far back as when the latter was the Deputy. 

Luanda, Aberdeen, Georgetown

One of the pitfalls of us trying to guess where this oil-laden republic might be headed both economically and sociologically, is to compare it to other countries which have experienced similar booms.

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